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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20

that 1t did not sooner occur. In these
disasters all the horrors Of death are COM
bined-crushing, drowning, mangling,
burning, and as in this latest accident,
freezing. There are many accidents
every year that are due to defective
bridges, and yet railway companies know
they can have as much safety as they
choose to pay for; at any time they can
buy bridge of tirst-clsss concern that
shall be guaranteed absolutely safe and
permanent by the very best authority.
Regarding the second cause, broken rails,
we have Just read ia some paper that
weather. This is not so, if we may accept
the most reliable information and use
ordinary reason. Rails made OF good iron
do not break in winter, no matter how
severe the cold. Good iron, laid upon
well drained and well ballasted road-bed
will save nine-tenths of the accidents from
broken rails, Of which We learn by exam
lining statistics there are about fifty every
year. 1t is well known that iron contain
ing any considerable amount of phospho-
rus is very liable to break under a sudden
shock in cold weather, but in some north
ern countries in, Europe, where the eli
mate is much more severe than il
America, broken rails are unknown,
simply because none but the best
iron Is laid. Broken rails can be,
should be, and we believe will be guarded
against better than before, now that the
necessity is enforced by this recent hor-
ror. Railway companies can afford to run
no risks in this particular. The third
cause for railway accidents, misplaced
switches, is, strange to say, the least i'm
pOrtant of all. Accidents are seldom due
to this cause, but they can be yet further
reduced by securing only well paid and
competent employees who are thoroughly
interested in the welfare of the road and by
rigid system of personal accountability.
The fourth cause, running behind time,
or out OF schedule time, we would have
stopped By legal enactment. While it
does not appear that any of the recent
railway horrors were due to running
cut Of time, it is a significant fact
that all the trains that have been smashed
up were behind time. No matter if there
are two tracks, there is always & risk in
running behind time, and it should be
stopped forthwith. If these requirements
were all recognized, the heating of cars
might well be left as it is. "An ounce of
preventive" etc. But for the benefit of
the timid it may be stated that of all
means of locomotion, railway travel is the
safest, and official returns in France and
England show that man is safer in a
railway train than in his own house, and
that he is thirty times more liable to lose
his life by hanging than by railway acct
dent. The same cannot be said in this
country, but with stricter attention given
to the matters above referred to, most Of
the catastrophes might be averted.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20

in outside newspapers. In speaking to
question of privilege on this subject in
the Senate, Mr.. Houston said: 81
will not stand up on this floor and in this
high presence and bend my privileges to
the abuse of any man, but say, sir, that
anything contrary to what have said is
utterly, unspeakably and abominably
false, no matter by whom uttered, and ne
who feels wronged, may right himself,
how and where ne chooses. l hold my
self personally responsible wherever l
may be, either in or outside this hall.
Less than this I should not speak, more
than this could not say" If those who
are seeking the injury of the Panhandle
representatives are wise in their day and
generation, they will content themselves
with clearing their own skirts OF the
Charge of "collusion and fraud and
farce
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20

PRINCE BISMARCK now appears before
the world in the anomalous position of
alliance with Pope Leo, and thus endeay
oring to use the authority of the ch-.cn
to bring rebelllous subjects to his wishes.
The Prussian leader was born too late if
he expects to control mems actions by
manifestos from the Vatican. The non
acquescing element of the Reichstag has
never admitted the Pope's infallibllity in
politics, neither have the ultramontanes
themselves demanded it; therefore, Ger
man Catholics will feel justified in the
maintenance OF their personal liberty of
action in all matters pertaining to the
political interests CT their country. In
the meantime, Bismarck, who fifteen years
ago prosecuted the church, even driving
bishops from their dioceses, is now open
ly charged with using them as election
eering agents to carry forward his
scheme of placing the war department
under his sole control for the next seven
years, and Pope Leo is no longer Vicar of
the Prince of Peace, but in reality an
alder and abettor of war upon tn earth.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20

THE Fort Worth GAZETTE contends that tee
Texas homestead law ought to be modified 80
as to not afford dishonest debtors such wide
scope for defrauding their creditors, to which
the Waco Day replies that the homestead law is
a Il odern invention, the outgrowih of our Re
publican government, and should be preserved.
An honest revision, providing against glazing
abuses, IS perhaps desirable, but any ttnkering
that is likely to destroy the breadth of Its
beneficent provisions ought to be discouraged.
+ Brennan Banner.
All inen favor homestead law; but 1t
should express an exemption in such spe-
cifc terms as not TO throw wide open the
door to fraud and rssca,lty. The present
homestead law OF Texas is a weight upon
ell the people and too often means to
robbery no less reprehensible than the
bludgeon and sandbag.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20

THE Austin special to THE GAZETTE
yesterday reported the argument
in the Willis case. In the con-
Guiding speech of the Attorney General
CATER generating Hon. James n. Brown
ing aud Senator Houston, he wound up
his argument by q scathing announcement
Of Judge Willis as man that should no
longer disgrace the Judicial ermine of
Texas; that the mmittee might refuse
TO prefer charges against him; that the
Legislature might refuse to impeach him,
but so long as he had control of the
AttorneyGenersl's office he would prose-
cute corruption in office. if it took every
dollar in the Treasury department of the
state" The man who doubts that Jim
Hogg will do what and all he says, has
only to bide his time. l. is not for THE
GAZETTE to pass on the guilt or limo
cence Of Judge Willis, but this much is
now certain: According TO the testi-
mony in the case, judicial procedure in
his court was a farce and mockery of
law, and, therefore, a disgrace to the
Panhandle and a shame to all Texas.
No man who regards the reputation
of the state can read the testi-
mony of the witnesses in this Willis case
without blushing for Texas. Whether
the charge of collision or fraud be true
or false, the farce of law as enforced in
the Panhandle under Willis is established.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20
SAFETY IN TRAVEL.

In commenting upon the frightful acct
dent on the Vermont Central Railroad,
the newspapers all enforce the necessity
of some safer method of heating and
lighting the cars. This is an important
and much needed reform, but to place so
much emphasis upon it, to the exclusion
of all else, is to admit the necessity of
accidents on the rail. Bat is it not far
more important to guard against accidents
on the rail than to take it for granted
that they must occur and only consider
the means OF lessenfng their horrors
when they do occurf Bpilroad accidents
are almost wholly due to four causes,
namely: weak bridges, broken rails, mis-
placed switches or deviation from time
tables. Regarding the first cause, rail-
road bridges, whether of wood or iron,
can be so made as to be entirely safe
under all ordinary conditions OF service,
and they can be kept under such in
spectIon that no element of danger shall be
allowed to develop itself. 1t is now def
nitely known that half an hours honest
and competent inspection would have
condemned the Ashtabula bridge upon
the day it was finished. The legislative
committee appointed to investigate the
horror oy which eighty persons lost their
lives, reported that the bridge was liable
to go down at any time during the ten
years preceding the accident, under Or
binary loads, and it was most remarkable
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20

D.A. MUM has announced his candi-
dacy for Congress to tillthe place vacated
by Reagan's election to the Senate. THE
GAZETTE has known Dave Num- for more
than twenty years, and can indorse, and
takes pleasure in indorslng, what the
Crockett Economist says Of him, and
much more might be said with equal
truth of our long time friend: CHE is
courageous, never known to conceal his
feelings and opinions through any delicate
solicitude for the soundness of his body,
nor through fear Of public or individual
disapproyal; honest, never having been
impeached by his worst enemies, Of
which he has some right serious ones, as
every man has, who has the courage OF
his feelings and opinions; capable, as is
proven by Z universal, Well-placed conf
dence il his ability, displayed in the num-
Der and nature OF his patrons profession
ally, and the trusts that have at various
times been confded to him by the public"
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Rates of Advertising Furnished on Application.

ReTittances by draft poSt0Tce money of0eT 3"
O registered letter. at risk Of office, -,
Correspondence as solicited upon all ne''S Sao-
Sects. ,,
PROMPT information ofeuertS and ne3rS happen
ings OF general interest solicited, and fH be prop
an Communications intended for publication
must be accompanied by the ec11terS name aLu a."
good faith. 10000.
Parties ,critiaq to THE GAZETTE on business
personal to themselves ciu please tHcloSe stamp Jof
reply. w. .,,,-,,
Ali letters or communications for THE GAZETTE
Ehether Oh. business or for publication should oe
c Idressed to THE GAZETTE, or DEMOCRAT / uB
LISTING Co Fort Forth, Ter, AND NOT 10
INDIVIDUALS. =,
Al checks, money orders, postal notes, ETC
should be made payable to the DEMOCRAT RUB
LIsHISG Co.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20

q large number Of supernumerarles, yep
resentlng priests, priestesses, dancing
girls, choristers, amazons, senators and
citizens Of Ephesus. The engagement OF
Messrs. Robson and Crane, at the Fort
Worth opera house, next Wednesday and
Thursday, will undoubtedly be a dramatic
event of more than ordinary interest,
They will appear as the "Two bro
MICS" Wednesday night and Thursday
matinee, and on Thursday night will be
seen magnificent production of Shakes
speare's "Merry Wives of Windsor" :
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20
Subscriptions Received by The GGZstte for
this Drouth Sufferers.

Subscriptions Received by The GGZstte for
ths Drouth Sufferers.
In compliance with special request,
THE GAZETTE yesterday announced that
i --ould receive donations for the pur-
pose ofsuying seed for the people in the
west who were unable to provide means
for raising crops this year. During the
day the following subscriptions We're
received. The amount thus donat-
ed yesterday is about one-fourth
of what is nee rs cry to pur-
chase carload each of seed oats and
corn. May not TIE GAZETTE ask others
to be equally prompt, that these seed may
be bought at once and shipped to the
people who have SO little time in which
to put the seed in the ground for crops?
These people need this cid nor that they
may not be in need again; they need help
to help themselves. VIII not all who are
able help in this cause which appeals to
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20

JUDGE FURMAN says "the drawback to
sales of Tarrant county's school lands so
far has been mainly from not having a To-
cal agent empowered to act for T. coun-
ty and execute deeds to purcha, rs"
Why does not the county appoint such
local agent? If Tarrant wants to sell the
lands and can sell the lands by appointing
an agent in the county where they are sit
uated, why does not Tarrant appoint such
agent?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20
Who'll Decide?
Temple Herald.

THE GAZETTE in discussing legislative
questions uses the terri "corporste afpi-
tar' indiscriminitely. ItisHot corporate
capital that the people object to. Corpo-
rate capital for Legitimate purposes or
rightful use is not obi ectionable, but it
is extortionste and cormorant capital
that the people object to and should be
legiSlated out of existence. Give Us cap
ital, send it forth and scatter it s6road in
a healthy abundance, but death to all
jobbing, robbIng, asuriouS capital, COM
oined against right, justice and the peo-
Gle
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20

TEXAS should consider the opinion of
the late William X. Vanderbilt. He wss
asked for his opinion concerning the
creation of commission to supervise
the railroads of New York state he said:
'1f you create commission, one of two
things is certain. The commission will
run the railroads, or the railroads will
own the commission" No man wants a
commission to run the railroads, and no
man wants commission that will line its
pockets with railroad money.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20
Notice to Drouth Sufferers.

The drouth relief committee have writ
ten to all the counties which they sup
posed would need assistance. 1t is pos
sibIe that some counties have been over
looked. 1t is important and desirable
that all counties needing aid and believ-
ing themselves entitled to it under the
relief bill recently passed by the Legisla-
ture, shall correspond with the commit
tee without delay. Address Drouth Re-
lief Committee, Cisco, EastIand county,
Tex.
Local papers in drouth regions please
copy. II. P. LEAGUE,
February 10, 1887. For Committee.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20

THE apparent effort on the part of
somebody to besmirch the gsmes of Sen
ator Houston and Representative Brown
ing by dragging these gentlemen into the
Willis case is infamous. These gentle
men are not pliable, they cannot DE bent
to do the bidding of wrong, and hence the
effort TO drag them into the case which
reeks with judicial pretense and
legal sham, and which will give
tone to Impressions of the Pan
handle and of Texas through reports
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20

A RECENT trip of the mail stage from
Mount Idaho to Lewiston, Idaho, requir-
ed four days (swe've hours being the
schedule time), and one of the horses
died on the trip from exhaustion. A COM
mercial traveller was the only passenger,
and he got through in safety. A local
paper says that no one but drummer
could have survived the trip.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20

DALLAS must be sadly deficient in hotel
accommodations when the papers so pub
Hcly complain of them. They remind US
of the time, now happily past, when Fort
Worth needed hotels. This city can ac-
commodate all now.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20
THIS letter speaks for itself:

A. II. Belo & Co., Dallas, Ten.
GENTs-Inclosed hand you my bank check
for $3.50, for advance payment for six months,
subscription TO Daily News. Allow me to saw
your paper is very creditable to its publishers,
an honor to the state of Texas and daisy for
its readers. Yours truly, WILLIAM LITTLE.
Hutchins, Tex, Feb. l6, 1857.
i Dallas News.
THE GAZETTE congratulates its es-
teemed contemporary on the fact that it
has at last actually receiveda subscription
(paid in advance, for full six months, to
is daily issue. This is an evidence of
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20

THE amount OF money asked from Galveston
TO secure deep water is such a mere bagatelle,
as compared with the vast wealth of the city,
that 1t should be raised at once without asking
state aid or resort to the Issuance of bonds
and taxation for their re6emptlon.-Austin
Call.
Does the Call intend 10 say that Gal
weston will ask state aid?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20
Does What She Promises.
MOSCOW Pinery.

Fort Worth is building railroads at the
rate of two day, and very soon she will
be weaping because she cannot find more
to build. Truly, Fort Worth is great IN
her Vastness, and vast in her greatness,
and Is about the only town that does
more than she threatens to do.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20

JEFFERSON CITY, Mop Feb. l9.-The
Senate voted yesterday to postpone in
definitely consideration OF the House
resolution, providing for the submission
of prohibitory amendment. This practi-
eally defeats the submission movement
orthi5 session.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20
Comedy of Errors,

The true mission of the stage is to in
struct as we'll as to entertain. Properly
conducted it should be the mentor and
the guide for correctness of speech and
department. 1t may never attain this
acme of excellence, but the nearer it
approaches it the more perfect it
will be. Robson and Craue's pro-
duction Of the COMEDY Of Errors" is
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20

.Egery person is interested in their own
afaifs, end il this meets the eye of ana
One whais suffering from the effects OF y
torpid liver, we Will aamit,thaS'he is IN
terested uzgetting welt.F@ Get asbotsfe of
Prickiy Asn- Bttersp,pse 1t as objected,
and you will always 81. glau Sef' ssS this
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20

ALTHOUGH a little in advance of the
season, Senator Hoar is running his mill
on full time, and with an evident inten-
ton of doing what he can to have on
hand q sufficient supply of the manu-
featured article for the demand expected
two years hence. 1t seems that outrage
grist is not perishable material, or else
the nostrils of his customers are not so
nice in discriminating as to warrant any
fear of mustiness in it when needed for
the market. The label "Texas" will
doubtless have much to DO with the ~ -
charitable quality OF the goods furnished,
as nothing SO deligaS sealers in this ar
ticle as a soItS 8 Jrand, Ohio and
other states have attempted to break
down the monopoly, but nothing suits
the Radical purchaser as Southern Out
rage" and although law is violated and
fraud practiced by northern Republicans
at elections, there is no demand for con-
gressional investigation, nor is there
aroused any righteous indignation in the
breast of Senator Hoar and other servi-
tors Of that party.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20
FENCING.

INIRE PICKET FENCE-special styles fo9
w fronts, yards, city lots. etc, where thE
b9st and handsomest fences are.wanred. Hea3y
steel W res and heart cypress pickets, closely
woven, three 10 four feet high. only 81 and az
per 100 feet. Texas Fence Company, Fdrt
Worth, Waco and Dallas.
TNHE FENCE FOR FARMERS-CypEass pie
Il cts, or AZ it., uniformly pofnt=ds. closely
buffstfcns,- only IS to S per 100 feet. Ten las
Fence Company, Fort Worth, Waco and Dxiltas.
EENCE MACH NERk for sale at low pri5es,
4 aAd mo afaTge Tor county rights. The pest
ntarRinery on the market, and fully patented
Texas Fence Company, Fort Worth, Waco and
Dallas.
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Would Do Good.

The Fort Worth GAZETTE is an out
and out high license paper. We believe
that high license would do much good.
Better than license which permits pizen
dens st every corner.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20

CANNOT the ministers of Fort Worth
take up a collection to-day for the pur-
pose of buying seed for the drouth SUI
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20

THE Cieburne Reporter records an &C
tive business in real estate in johnson
countY's capital.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20

THE GAZETTE premiums to beTdrawn
April are valusete;7 useful and hand
some. They cost you nothing. Send the
Weekly or Sunday GAZETTE to some
friend for year and secure chance at
these premiums.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20

Is FORT WoRTH's sanitary condition
such that our people can regard the COM
ing of summer without apprehension?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20
So Far Oh.
/ lann Dr-a1

The Fort Worth GAZETTE is the best
daily paper that comes to this office. If
we could only get 1t the same day it was
published the people would have no other.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20

and its coiors, every bit of armor-in
short, every thing to be used on the stage.
These designs were placed in the hands
Of thoroughly competent artists in this
country and in Europe, and for fully
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20

AS-Subscribers wishing thelr ADDRESS
changed IRON one postof1ce to another, must
give the oil address as well as the new, or the
change cannot be made.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20
RESCELLAEEOgs.

A RTEsIAN BATH HOUsE-Natural Moving
n water, eighty gallons per minute, sgt -
the best bathing water in the state. It Ibay ba
used as at Hot Springs, drunk hot While) bath
Ing. Single tickets, Is cents; i've ticRJets, 81.
Markle 4 Haymaker, proprietors, nCEthwest
corner public square.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20

from high license. The tax would mate
rally tighten the burden now borne by the.
property of the state. Let the Iegislas
ture give the state high license law.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS.

Al persons seeking employment rho cannot Gr
ford TO pay may advertise in this column for stu
tionS free Of charge.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20

progress that must lend encouragement
to its hope of "staying," if not to its am
bition of "holding the field"
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20
WANTED-mALE He

WANTED-A skillful, IeIiablsp'brodrn q
w a steady Job forfhe' fight man. Apply
Star Broom Factory.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20

sented With a!llts seem
ic splendors and posi-
bilities, that it would
be one of the greatest
"hits" Of the age, they
determined to give it
as nearly like Shakes
peare saw 1t in his
wondrousbrain as pos
sible. With this OBJ
ject in view they en-
ployed the most sue
cessful artists in this
line in either England
or America to design
every scene, property
and effect. Every dress
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20
TINE GAZETTE has the Largest
hoas-fide Circulation of any Daily
Newspaper Published in Texas.
FOR THE SUFFERERS.

SUNDAY MO xNlNG. FEBRUARY 20.
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wholly left it. 1t was q
busy hive of trade and
wealth. Its silyersmlths
still fashioned their stat
ues of the tutelary god
dess of the town where
her greatest temple was
reared. 1t was still the
town of Diana, though
the sceptre had slipped
from the high priests and
priestesses that once
thronsed her fame. The
play in its new shape will
be divided into & pro-
logue, three acts and ten
tableauX. The cast will
include some competent
actors, and there will he
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